"It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Family Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Truly, Autumn is my season,â€ the scarlet beast chorted. â€œSpring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.”
“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
“If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”
“It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.”
“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”
“In the end all collaborations are love stories.”
“The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.”
“Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95

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